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<blockquote data-quote="pretzel_man" data-source="post: 331231" data-attributes="member: 927"><p>Diegotron,</p><p> </p><p>I don't know what the reason was in your situation, but I have directed trailers to be unloaded and reloaded before.</p><p> </p><p>Sometimes, it was to make a point, other times it was to save money. How does this save money???</p><p> </p><p>Again, I don't know what happened in your situation, but sometimes, I would notice a destination that was generating more trailers than I thought it should. I may have noticed this by audited the load, looking at the number of pieces loaded in the trailers, or from audits at the destination.</p><p> </p><p>I would have the managers take note of the % full that a trailer was. I'd then put in a good loader and unload the original and reload it. We would always see a significant decrease in the % full that a trailer was.</p><p> </p><p>In essence, we could demonstrate that more pieces could fit in the trailer.</p><p> </p><p>If I could save a TOFC, or Feeder run, saving $1000 was easy. The cost to unload and reload was probably less than $100. </p><p> </p><p>Again, I don't know why they did what they did, but those are my reasons. </p><p> </p><p>I DID however take the time to explain to the loaders what I did and why. They usually were proud that they could improve load quality and demonstrate higher pieces per trailer.</p><p> </p><p>P-Man</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pretzel_man, post: 331231, member: 927"] Diegotron, I don't know what the reason was in your situation, but I have directed trailers to be unloaded and reloaded before. Sometimes, it was to make a point, other times it was to save money. How does this save money??? Again, I don't know what happened in your situation, but sometimes, I would notice a destination that was generating more trailers than I thought it should. I may have noticed this by audited the load, looking at the number of pieces loaded in the trailers, or from audits at the destination. I would have the managers take note of the % full that a trailer was. I'd then put in a good loader and unload the original and reload it. We would always see a significant decrease in the % full that a trailer was. In essence, we could demonstrate that more pieces could fit in the trailer. If I could save a TOFC, or Feeder run, saving $1000 was easy. The cost to unload and reload was probably less than $100. Again, I don't know why they did what they did, but those are my reasons. I DID however take the time to explain to the loaders what I did and why. They usually were proud that they could improve load quality and demonstrate higher pieces per trailer. P-Man [/QUOTE]
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